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Winter 2026 Office of Teaching and Learning Book Club
During the Winter 2026 semester, the OTL Book Club will discuss Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Mollick, 2024), co-facilitated by Erin Aspenlieder (OTL) and Melanie Parlette-Stewart (McLaughlin Library). The book club is open to all University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown faculty, staff, instructors, teaching assistants, and graduate students.
The book club will make space for conversations about AI use in teaching and learning. The book explores multiple ways to engage with AI (as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach) and considers existing and future impacts on teaching and learning (among other areas). While the book skews towards the optimistic, this book club will be a space for all perspectives and will encourage and invite constructive dialogue and respectful disagreement. The book also assumes no prior knowledge of AI but offers a grounding knowledge before moving quickly toward application. Which is to say: you do not need to be an AI enthusiast or expert to participate. Over three meetings we aim to get you thinking and talking. Join us January 21, February 25 and March 25.
About Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI:
From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI
Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world.
In Co-Intelligence, Mollick urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach. He assesses its profound impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it’s imperative that we master that skill.
Mollick challenges us to utilize AI’s enormous power without losing our identity, to learn from it without being misled, and to harness its gifts to create a better human future. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.
(From the publisher’s description ©2024 Penguin Random House)
Book Club Schedule
Book Club members will meet on three Wednesdays:
- Wednesday, January 21
- Wednesday, February 25
- Wednesday, March 25
The in-person book club will meet from 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM.
The virtual book club will meet from 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM.
Accessing the Book
Co-Intelligence is available online through the McLaughlin Library.
Register for the Book Club
Register for the in-person book club.
Register for the virtual book club.